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Currently Reading? Just Finished? 2020
Finished the crime thriller
Gone in Seconds by Ed James. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Started
A Million Little Lies by Bette Lee Crosby
Finished Death Of An Englishman by Magdalen Nabb, the first Marshal Guarnaccia mystery. Not perfect but a good intro to the series. (3.5 stars)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeJGL...
Starting another series next, the first Vanessa Munroe thriller, The Informationist: by Taylor Stevens.
Now starting OF MICE AND MINESTRONE by Joe Lansdale, the most recent release in his ongoing Hap & Leonard series set in East Texas.
Just got done reading these booksDorothy Must Die Danielle Paige as big fan of The Wizard of Oz I really loved this twisted tale of the story we all know and loved
The Inn James Patterson Okay of book but not one of his best
Fracture Megan Miranda I really loved this book and its Paranormal tale
The Lost Girls Heather Young This book was kinda a lit down i also found it very boring at some parts
Some Choose Darkness
by Charlie DonleaIn this first book in the Rory Moore/Lane Phillips series, forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore gets involved in a forty-year-old case.
Well-written, suspenseful, and engaging. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Luck be a Lady, Don't Die
by Robert RandisiRat Pack Mystery #2, OK to read as stand-alone. Las Vegas, 1960. Start spreading the word, Frank Sinatra, Dino, Sammy and the rest of the Hollywood Rat Pack are in Las Vegas for the premier of "Ocean's Eleven". Sinatra has divorced Ava Gardner, is engaged to Juliet Prowse and asks his pal Eddie Gianelli, who works at the Sands as a pit boss, to help him with a little problem with a missing girl friend. Then the bodies start to pile up. Easy, breezy, very entertaining mystery with lots of name-dropping and Vegas history. I really liked it, 4 stars.
I finished Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith today, a nice gentle Precious Ramotswe mystery. It's been awhile. My review belowhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Heading to New Orleans next for the 4th Skip Langdon mystery, New Orleans Beat by Julie Smith
The Sunset Sisters by Cecilia LyraFinished the delightful 4 star
A Million Little Lies by Bette Lee Crosby https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hello everyone!I'm new in this group! I would be glad to share with you my love for crime novels!
The last one I finished was
"In Bitter Chill" by Sarah Ward.I would probably give it a 2/5 stars.
I might start reading book no.2
"A Deadly Thaw".Has anyone read the second one?
Nancy wrote: "Christine wrote: "I finished my 61st book"What a coincidence! So did I."
Wow! Congratulations to both of you. I am only 27 books behind you. ;-)
RJ from the LBC wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Christine wrote: "I finished my 61st book"
What a coincidence! So did I."
Wow! Congratulations to both of you. I am only 27 books behind you. ;-)"
In my case, I think it's because I don't turn on my tv until evening and I've also been known to stay up around the clock to finish a book I particularly like.
What a coincidence! So did I."
Wow! Congratulations to both of you. I am only 27 books behind you. ;-)"
In my case, I think it's because I don't turn on my tv until evening and I've also been known to stay up around the clock to finish a book I particularly like.
Broken Promise
by Linwood BarclayThere are bad things happening in Promise Falls, New York, including a woman's murder.
There's an interesting array of characters in this complex story, which is the beginning of a trilogy.
3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Deck the Hounds
by David RosenfeltAndy Carpenter #18, OK to read as stand-alone. Andy defends a homeless man accused of murder. Light, humorous mystery-legal thriller. Very well done, more complex than most in this series. 4 stars.
I'm currently reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. The Jackson Brodie-series has been on my TBR-list for ages, but now I've finally started the first book. It's great - in fact much better than I'd expected.
I just finished Felony Murder Rule by Sheldon SiegelIf you like like legal mysteries, try this series. My 4 star review.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am currently reading The Girl Before by J P Delaney.... really good and very engrossing and enthralling a definite recommendation.
Just finished
Darkest Night by Jenny O'BrienI really enjoyed it.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Araych wrote: "Deck the Hounds
by David RosenfeltAndy Carpenter #18, OK to read as stand-alone. Andy defends a homeless man accused of murder. Light, humorous mystery-legal t..."
This series is a lot of fun. 🙂
Sorry couldn’t get into the above ^^^ book that I posted earlier... premise good the content not so good. So my current read is The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty... now I have read another book of hers and wasn’t into it but so far I am loving this and I have to admit her characters and story writing are enthralling... won’t go into it too much don’t want to jinx this.
Tone wrote: "I'm currently reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. The Jackson Brodie-series has been on my TBR-list for ages, but now I've finally started the first book. It's grea..."It's a great series, Tone.
Just finished:
Deprivation
by: Roy Freirich
Excessively florid prose distracts from an interesting take on the effects of mass hysteria and epidemics.
My full review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm bundling the three books in the Promise Falls trilogy. Broken Promise
by Linwood Barclay Book 1There are bad things happening in Promise Falls, New York, including a woman's murder.
Good beginning to the trilogy. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
*****
Far From True
by Linwood Barclay Book 2Two women in Promise Falls, New York have been brutally killed in a disturbingly similar fashion and a rash of other crimes also plague the city.
Good mystery. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
******
The Twenty-Three
by Linwood Barclay Book 3The water in Promise Falls gets poisoned, which causes havoc in the town.
Workmanlike conclusion to the trilogy. 3 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bill wrote: "Tone wrote: "I'm currently reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. The Jackson Brodie-series has been on my TBR-list for ages, but now I've finally started the first bo..."Thanks Bill, that's good to know because I've just ordered the whole series.
Tone wrote: "Bill wrote: "Tone wrote: "I'm currently reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. The Jackson Brodie-series has been on my TBR-list for ages, but now I've finally started..."I like her standalones as well.
I just finished listening to Mr. Mercedes.
King does mysteries as well as he does borrow. Here’s my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Tone wrote: "I'm currently reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. The Jackson Brodie-series has been on my TBR-list for ages, but now I've finally started the first book. It's grea..."I envy you just starting, Tone. I re-read the first few books recently before getting to the latest one, and I enjoyed them just as much the next time around. She's an excellent writer, and I love her characters.
I just finished a quick read medical suspense The Patient by Michael Palmer. Before that a HF mystery Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly. Next up Caleb Carr's The Italian Secretary
Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. JamesA return to Pemberley after Elizabeth and Darcy have been married for several years. A murder occurs, which affects Elizabeth's family.
Interesting to visit with the well known characters but not a great mystery. 2 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Tone wrote: "I'm currently reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. The Jackson Brodie-series has been on my TBR-list for ages, but now I've finally started the first bo..."Yes Patty, I agree that this is the kind of book that can (and perhaps should) be read more than once.
Finished The Mercy Seat
by Elizabeth Hartley WinthropMy Review:www.goodreads.com/review/show/3395584383
What We Hide by Lesley SandersonI loved everything from the story to the characters to the cover
The Sunset Sisters by Cecilia Lyra. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Somebody’s Daughter, seventh book in the Natalie Ward series by Carol Wyer. This book rises the series in quality, with attention given to a larger ensemble cast à la Ed McBain. The author also made a lot of field research on the main theme of the book, and it shows. Highly recommended.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished and loved
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierMy Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3352617091
Just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. Reading "Helmet For My Pillow" by Robert Lechie.
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